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candy crowley. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." when the u.s. invaded iraq back in march 2003, few people imagined it was the start of a nightmare that would last almost nine years, cost more than 4,000 american lives, plus hundred of billions of u.s. taxpayer doll lors. the u.s. mission in iraq which had been gradually drawing down will instead come to an abrupt end in just over two months with all american forces out of iraq by year's end. president obama himself announced the end of the iraq war. >> today, i can report that as promised, the rest of our troops in...

Armored personnel carrier, a war trophy. protesters say this armored vehicle was being used by gadhafi's forces to shoot on the people. now they have taken control of it and are driving it themselves. the rebels are now armed with heavy weapons, to show they're prepared to use them, some fired guns in the air. nearby, we were taken to a house to see a half dozen men, prisoners captured three days ago during a previously unreported major battle. the prisoners, all libyans, surrendered to save their lives. they looked despondent, and understandably nervous. they told us they'd been fighting alon...

As a soldier in afghanistan you expect that. >> the operation came five months into deployment. basically, the insurgents were bringing in arms, a lot of rat lines as they call it, ammo, fresh fighters from pakistan. operation rock avalanche was designed to disrupt that activity and engage the enemy on more equal terms. >> sean: the sergeant and his soldiers were not prepared for what happened next. >> the second platoon got hit badly, one casualty and two wounded. they overran the position they grabbed american weapons, gear, backpacks and made off with them. what the military wanted to do is...